The research proposed for this project will support community education efforts of the iMOVe Arts Association to support the re-integration of racialized and marginalized people who have been incarceration into community, help youth at risk avoid incarceration, and development of leadership skills to enable systems change to reduce racism, over-representation of racialized people in incarceration, […]

My research examines the significance of opposition to large-scale land deals for electoral democracy and citizenship in Senegal. Since 2007, there has been a dramatic surge in land acquisitions in the Global South. These projects, because they often encroach on community farmland and pastures, can profoundly damage rural livelihoods. In Senegal, aggrieved populations across the […]

From October 2022 – March 2023, I will be conducting an internship in Dr. Simone Dalla Bella’s lab at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research (BRAMS, Montréal, Canada). The goal will be to investigate the relationship between two systems playing an important role during music listening: the reward and motor systems. Indeed, […]

Animal experiments have made significant contributions to medical advances. However, there is increasing awareness in the scientific community that animal studies are not always carried out with utmost efficiency. When study design is suboptimal and/or errors are made, there is a risk that incorrect conclusions are drawn, and that time, money, and animal lives are […]

The Rural Ontario Institute (ROI) develops, connects and informs leaders so that they can create better lives in the communities where they live. ROI proposes to engage a Mitacs Intern to lead its Rural Change Makers project, an initiative that brings youth in rural areas in Ontario together to build and improve their leadership capacities […]

Personalized nutrition and dietary recommendation products claiming to improve health are moving faster than the underlying science. Existing tools for communicating healthy foods are available, but they are designed for public (not individual) health, can not incorporate diet history, and can not adapt to the user’s preferred health outcomes. We propose to implement and fine-tune […]

The Arctic is entering a digital age where web-based media acts as one of the main drivers behind ideologies and action, both in the north and beyond. In order to ensure that Arctic stories are driven by Arctic creators, northern youth are searching for opportunities to enter this journalistic space. To support their mission, the […]

Les enfants, adolescents et jeunes adultes font face à une crise environnementale qui semble restreindre leurs perspectives futures. Cela peut leur causer ce qui est communément désigné comme de l’éco anxiété. Il est toutefois important que cette jeunesse ne soit pas paralysée par ce sentiment anxieux, car si elle constitue une génération qui sera particulièrement […]

Le projet vise à évaluer la relation et le potentiel synergique entre la qualité de l’alimentation et la prise de médicaments contre l’hypertension dans le contrôle de la pression artérielle. Ce projet mettra en évidence la qualité des soins pharmaco-nutritionnels au Québec en plus de fournir des preuves uniques sur les bénéfices associés à la […]

I research how film and media participate in juridical regimes stemming from the ocean space. In my doctoral thesis I analyze how the ongoing aestheticizing of the representation of the underwater nuclear weapon explosions not only invisibilizes the Indigenous experiences, but also how such visual regime is at odds with the urgencies of paradigmatic shifts […]

The archival fieldwork I will be conducting at the British Petroleum Archives will contribute to a larger doctoral dissertation, titled “Sites and Sights of oil: Archival Regimes of Extraction in Iran,” investigating the relationship between colonial archival practices of documenting the extraction of oil and the media and cultural infrastructures enabling this process. My research-creation […]

L’Organisation mondiale pour la Santé déclare que l’éclosion de la COVID-19 est une pandémie le 11 mars 2020. Depuis et au cours des vingt derniers mois, face à la propagation du virus et à la mortalité qui l’accompagne, le gouvernement du Québec a mis en place des mesures d’isolement sanitaire et de confinement impliquant pour […]